Filtered Archive Layout

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#1

Hi, I have downloaded your Filetered Archive Layout and I try to use it on one of my archives, but I cannot make it work.
I already have some Archive Layouts created in Cornerstone and assigned to different terms. There are tags for languages and categories. So I would like to add a filter with categories to the language archive as on this example:
https://dharmaebooks.org/tag/polski/

Of cource, I have chaged a few things, like that filter is now placed in an accordion, and I will exclude a few categories from the list. But I cannot figure out why it doesn’t work. I have watched the video a few time and tried to do it from the scratch, now used your precomposed filter layout.

Any clues?

Thank you!
Beata

#2

Hey Beata,

Please check if you have a Looper Provider enabled in your post listing. If that doesn’t help, please provide us with WordPress Login URL and Admin username and password in a Secure Note and we’ll check your setup.

Thanks.

#3

Sorry, I still don’t know what to do. I have added the note. I would appreciate some help.

#4

Hey @tashitendrel,

We cannot login to your admin. It is blocked (see screenshot in the secure note).

#5

I’m so sorry. Here it is:
https://dharmaebooks.org/wp-login.php/wildlotus

#6

That still doesn work.

#7

But I have just logged in with this link and credencials given in the note…

#8

Hey @tashitendrel,

It turns out that the Category option in your form has no value:
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It should have {{dc:term:slug}}
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By the way, I am just confused because your layout is assigned to only display when the post tag is [see the screenshot below]
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I would recommend assigning this layout to your blog index, a category, or a tag archive page.

Best Regards.

#9

Thank you, but I still must be doing it wrong.

I can see that the call is being made: https://dharmaebooks.org/tag/polski/?category_name=guru&cs-form-id=filtering
but the results in Posts don’t change. Maybe the assignment is still wrong, but this seemed to be the only one that works.

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I have attached screenshots with the current settings.

#10

Hey @tashitendrel,

Could you check this archive page if this have displayed the correct items?

I would highly recommend that you create an archive layout for a category page so we can test it as well.

Thanks.

#11

Hi, I can sum up the results for now:

  1. Yes, this is kind of a list of correct results for this tag and category.
  2. The problem is that this list of categories shows up now on all the archive layouts globaly. I can see that the assignment of the testing layout Languages was changed to Blog or Post tag, and the filter doesn’t work with a different assignment. This is a bit problematic, however it could work for me, if I make 2 filters: one with categories and one with chosen tags. However, in such case it would be good if the tag/category the archive layout is assigned to is being checked (or even fixed) by default. This way readers could chose options only for that one categore/tag. Would it be possible to do it?
  3. Currently ‘Languages’ is aasigned for this archive (and blog…): https://dharmaebooks.org/tag/polski/
    Some results show up correctly and some are not.
  • why you choce Philosophy, which a regular category, the result is correct, but the icon shows up as well, and it is supposed to show up only when there are no results
  • chosing Dharma Practice category doesnt give any results, but it has the biggest number of posts and some subcategories as well. I have removed most of those subcategories from the list, because they don’t work (one of them is Tara – on the list now).
    – there is another subcategory on the list now – Preliminaries – and this one works, but it also shows an icon…
  • also, when I chose which shouldn’t show any results, because it has nothing published in this language (tag), it doesn’t work and should show an icon…

All other categories strangly show correct results. I have also removed Value from Any.

  1. I have made a new Archive Layout for category called ‘Teachings - test’ (by clonning the Languages archive) and I have changed the filtering list to some tags instead. Then I have changed the assignment to the similar as ‘Languages’ had, but it doesn’t work… It should be here: https://dharmaebooks.org/category/teachings/
#12

Hey @tashitendrel,

In the Teachings layout, the field name should be “tag”:
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I am just not sure if the items here: https://dharmaebooks.org/category/teachings/?tag=polski&cs-form-id=filtering

is the same as what we have here: https://dharmaebooks.org/tag/polski/?category_name=teachings

Thanks.

#13

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Thank you. it all helps. I have now combined the 2 filters: categories and tags and set it globally. It works quite well… :slight_smile:
The only think I cannot figure out is why in case of some results I can see the icon, which is supposed to show only when there are no results. I have attached a screenshot and you can also test it on the above links.
I can see that it happenes only when the filter shows only 1 result. But again - not always. … I have cleared all the cashes and Cornerstone system cache.
The archive is now called Global-test, in case you want to check it again.

Thank you!
Beata

#14

Hey Beata,

Remove the “Has Post” condition and replace it with “Provider Output”. You also need to change the condition of any other elements using “Has Post”.

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Thanks.

#15

Ufortunatelly, as a result both post and icon are not showing up… So with ‘Has Post’ I can see both of them and with ‘Provider Output’ I see none of them. and this applies to those same cases. I even checked if there is anything different about these posts, but can’t see anything.

Also, I tried to change an order of Posts and Icon in the ‘posts’ column, and this is also resulting with neither showing up… I don’t know how the order of them makes any difference.

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#16

There is also another, bigger problem I have discovered now. On the list of posts the newest post is ommited. This is an example:


The number of posts is correctly showing: 5, and the only 4 of them are on the list below. The newest one is gone.
I wonder if this one and issue mentioned earlier, which keeps persisting, are connected…